The Wake County Public School System wants to use savings to cover utilities and academic and literacy help for students, in a proposal to adjust the school system's budget for local and federal changes in funding while the system continues to wait for a state budget.

The district is scheduled to present its plan to the school board Tuesday during an afternoon work session, but the board isn't scheduled to vote on it until Nov. 18 at the earliest.

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District officials believe they have $13.2 million to spend on utilities and academic assistance based on increases in federal and local funding that weren't expected when the board proposed its budget last spring, as well as cost savings.

But that won't come close to covering the $34.7 million in increased compensati

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